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# Correspondence: Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

Jl. Flora, Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Email: isnansetyo@ugm.ac.id

Available online at: http://ejournal-balitbang.kkp.go.id/index.php/iaj

COMPARISON OF NUTRITIONAL AND PROTEASE ACTIVITY PROFILES OF TWO LIVE FEED CANDIDATES OF Pseudodiaptomus SPECIES

Rina Puji Astuti, Alim Isnansetyo^#, Rarastoeti Pratiwi, and Suwarno Hadisusanto Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Bulaksumur, Caturtunggal, Kec. Depok, Kabupaten Sleman, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia (Received: November 19, 2021; Final revision: April 26, 2022; Accepted: April 26, 2022)

ABSTRACT

Pseudodiaptomus species are one of the copepods species as a superior live feed to date due to their nutrition and digestive enzyme contents. Some of them have been used as natural food for rearing marine fish larvae. The purposes of this study were to compare the nutritional and protease activity between two species of Pseudodiaptomus originated from Indonesian waters, and to determine more superior species to cultivate. Two different feeds i.e. Thalassiosira sp. and milk powder were used to grow the Pseudodiaptomus species. Analysis of amino acids (AAs) and fatty acids (FAs) profiles were carried out for both the Pseudodiaptomus species samples and the feeds, while the protease activity assay was carried out only for the Pseudodiaptomus species samples. Results indicated that the nutritional and protease activity profiles of Pseudodiaptomus were affected by the types of feed. Pseudodiaptomus code P61 was more superior to Pseudodiaptomus code P71. This code P61 species contained a wide variety of essential fatty acids and exhibited stable protease activity under the different feeding treatments. However, P61 contained a lower total AA content than P71. Both of them could be cultivated because they were complementary in nutrients to each other.

KEYWORDS: copepods; fatty acid; amino acid; enzyme activity; microcrustacea

INTRODUCTION

Copepods are microcrustaceans that have an im- portant role in maintaining the fishery resources and for fish larvae rearing in hatcheries (Drillet et al., 2011) because their nutritional contents are best suited to the nutrient requirement of marine fish larvae (Rayner et al., 2015; Rasdi & Qin, 2016). Barroso et al. (2013) have reported that Centropomus parallelus larvae which are fed with copepods as initial feed contain a better fatty acid composition than those are fed with roti- fer. Exogenous enzymes produced by the copepods are other advantages of copepods use, which sup- port the growth of fish larvae.The enzymes play a noteworthy role in the digestion of fish larvae (Zaleha et al., 2012). Exogenous enzymes, including protease, lipase, carbohydrate enzymes, and phytase are widely used as fish feed additives worldwide because of their ability to improve nutrient absorption, especially in

the early larval phase (Ji et al., 2008; Zheng et al., 2020). Therefore, the availability of copepods is very crucial for the early life stage of fish larvae, espe- cially marine fish.

Pseudodiaptomus species is a potential copepod to be cultivated. P. hessei (Noyon & Froneman, 2014), P. annandalei (Rayner et al., 2015), P. inopinus (Matsui et al., 2021) have been profiled their fatty acid, while Pseudodiaptomus species code 61 (P61) and code 71 (P71) from Indonesian waters are being character- ized and profiled. In our prior study, P61 found in Kulonprogo, Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia; might be a new species based on its morphology and mo- lecular characteristics, while P71 was identified as P.

trihamatus. P. trihamatusis abundant in estuary wa- ters in Pejarakan, Buleleng, Bali Province. Till this moment, nutritional profiles of P. trihamatus have not been investigated yet. Therefore, the purposes of this study are to know the most appropriate Pseudodiaptomus species for a live feed of marine fish larvae by comparing the amino acid, fatty acid, and protease activity profiles of two Pseudodiaptomus species under two different feeds treatment.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Sample Preparation for Amino Acids and Prpotease Activity Profiles

Pseudodiaptomus species codes P61 and P71 were collected from shrimp and grouper ponds in Kulonprogo, Yogyakarta and Pejarakan, Bali, respec- tively in August 2018 and September 2020. The samples of adult Pseudodiaptomus for analysis were developed from eggs hatched by 200 gravid females.

The rearing was carried out in an 8 L volume of fil- tered seawater using a 14 L plastic container, at 28- 30 ppt salinity and 28°C with a 12:12 hour photope- riod. They were maintained for 14 and 10 days feed- ing with either 4,500 cells/mL of Thallassiosira sp. or 1 mg/L of milk powder (MP). Pseudodiaptomus were fasted for 24 hours in seawater and rinsed with fresh water before being harvested. Furthermore, 500- 1,000 individuals were freeze-dried for 15 hours to be used in amino acids and fatty acids analyses. In addition, 100 individuals were also fasted and then harvested for protease activity analyses. These samples were stored at -80°C before being analyzed.

Amino acids and fatty acids analyses were also con- ducted for Thallassiosira sp. and milk powder as feed.

Analysis of Amino Acids

A total individual number of 500 freeze-dried adult Pseudodiaptomus species were placed into a screw tube and added with 2 mL of 6 N HCl. Nitrogen gas was added into the tube for 0.5-1 minute and the tube was closed immediately. The tube was heated at 110°C for 24 hours, then kept at room temperature until it reaches room temperature level. The obtained solu- tions were transferred into a rotary evaporator flask.

The tube was rinsed with distilled water 2-3 times, and combined in the rotary evaporator flask. These samples were dried using a rotary evaporator at 80°C.

HCl0.01 N was added until reached 10 mL in volume and then filtered with 0.45 µm millipore paper (Sar- torius™). Kalium borate buffer pH 10.4 was added to the sample in a ratio of 1:1 (v/v). Each 5 µL sample was transferred into an empty vial, then 25 µL of OPA solution was added, and left for one minute at room temperature. A sample of 5 µL was injected into the HPLC column (Thermo Scientific ODS-2 Hyersil). Buffer A and buffer B were used as mobile phase with 1 mL/

minute of mobile phase flow rate, with a fluorescence detector. Buffer A was composed of 2 g Na-Asetat (pH 6.5), 0.5 g Na-EDTA, 90 mL methanol, and 15 mL tetrahidrofuran dilute in 1,000 mL high purity water which was filtered through 0.45 µm millipore paper.

Buffer B was composed of 95% methanol in high pu-

rity water which was filtered through 0.45 µm millipore paper. The HPLC was conditioned by adding a gradient mobile phase, namely buffer B in 5% at 0.01 minute, 5% at two minute, 35% at 13 minute, 35% at 15 minute, 70% at 20 minute, 90% at 22 minute, 100%

at 25 minute, 0% at 28 minute, and 0% at 35 minute.The concentration of amino acids was mea- sured in mole while the result of the calculation was expressed in % (w/w). The injection was carried out in triple.

Analysis of Fatty Acids

Fatty acids methyl ester (FAME) synthesis was car- ried out according to the one-step method adopted from Indarti et al. (2005) using 1,000 adults Pseudodiaptomus and 0.1 mg of the feed samples. The Analysis of fatty acid compounds was carried out by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) (Agilent), by injecting 1 µL of FAME suspension into HP-5MS 5% Phenyl methyl siloxane columns (Agilent™) at 280°C with a mobile phase of helium gas at a flow rate of 1 mL/minute for 39.667 minutes. The fatty acids were identified based on the Willey 09TH.L da- tabase.

Analysis of Protease Activity

Protease activity analysis were carried out using the Pierce Protease Assay Kit number 23263 (Thermo Scientific, USA). A total of 100 adult individuals Psedodiaptomus were crushed, dissolved in 200 µL assay buffer (BupH Borate Buffer), and centrifuged at 12,000 g for 10 minutes. The microplate well was added with 50 µL supernatant of sample and 100 µL of succinylated casein solution. The blank well was added with 100 µL of assay buffer. Trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid 50 µL was added to each well. The plate was incubated at 37°C for 20 minutes. The absor- bance was measured at 450 nm with a microplate reader (BioTek ELX800). Protease activity was mea- sured by subtracting the blank absorbance from the sample absorbance (“A450). This (“A450) was plot- ting to the linear regression equation of delta pro- tease standard curve.

Data Analysis

The data were presented in mean ± standard de- viation (SD). The statistical analysis was carried out with SPSS version 14.0. Independent-samples T-test was used to compare amino acid contents between species as well as between feed types. The fatty acid data were carried out with a descriptive analysis. The data of protease activity was analyzed with one-way ANOVA.

Table 1. Detectable fatty acids of Thallassiosira sp. and milk powder

Thalassiosira sp. Milk powder

Methyl tetradecanoate Methyl tetradecanoate

Oleic acid Ethyl Oleate

Pentadecanoic acid Pentadecanoic acid

Methyl palmitoleate Methyl palmitoleate

Methyl palmitate Methyl palmitate

Hexadecanoic acid Hexadecanoic acid

Linoleic acid Linoleic acid

cis-5,8,11,14,17-Eicosapentaenoic acid Methyl myristoleate 4,7,10,13,16,19-Docosahexaenoic acid Methyl pentadecanoate

Butyl 6,9,12,15-octadecatetraenoat Methyl caproate Methyl 8,11,14,17-eicosatetraenoat Tetradecanoic acid

Methyl oleate Methyl n-pentadecanoate

Methyl stearate Methyl caprylate

Hexadecatrienoic acid Decanoic acid

Ethyl 9-hexadecenoate Methyl 15-methylhexadecanoate

Methyl lignocerate Ethyl palmitate

Trimethyl citrate cis-10-Heptadecenoic acid

Heptadecanoic acid Methyl laurate Methyl elaidate

Stearic acid

Methyl 10-trans,12-cis-octadecadienoat Pentanoic acid

Methyl linolelaid Methyl eicosanoate

c-2,c-3-epoxy-t-6-methylcyclohept-4-en-r-1-ol RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The feeding treatments using the two types of feed with good nutrient contents (Table 1) were ap- plied to cultivate two species of Pseudodiaptomus spe- cies code P61 and P71. When the two species were cultivated under Thalassiosira sp. feeding treatment, P61 showed a lower concentration of amino acid (AA) than P71. Milk powder (MP) feeding treatment in- creased AA concentration in P61 as well as P71 but a higher increase was found in P61 than in P71 (Table 2). Each Pseudodiaptomus species in this study showed different responses toward the feeding treatments.

When P71 was fed with Thalassiosira sp., it exhibited a more noticeable increase in AA content than feed- ing with MP, in contrast, P61 fed with MP produced a higher AA content.

Within the metabolic pathways, AAs act as a regu- latory substance. Essential and non-essential AAs play an important role in increasing the growth and sur- vival of the larvae. Glycine is one of the non-essen- tial AAs that plays a role in gluconeogenesis, increases the efficiency of nutrient absorption, and plays an

essential role in osmoregulation (Li et al., 2009). Gly- cine supplementation in feed enhances the growth and immune response of Litopenaeus vannamei shrimp (Xie et al., 2014). This study indicated that the gly- cine concentrations in P71 and P61 were significantly different. Under Thalassiosira sp. feeding treatment, the P71 (2.97 ± 0.00%) showed a higher glycine con- tent than P61 (1.22 ± 0.00%). On the other hand, glycine content in P61 was higher (1.88 ± 0.00%) than in P71 (1.75 ± 0.00%) under MP feeding treatment.

Amino acids content in P61 and P71 were significantly different between the two Pseudodiaptomus species either under Thalassiosira sp. or MP feeding treat- ments, except for the lysine. The AA analysis results also indicated the interaction between the species of Pseudodiaptomus and the type of feed toward the total AA content.

Pseudodiaptomus species are able to synthesize fatty acids (FAs). This study found that P61 contained more diverse FAs than P71 under Thalassiosira sp. feed- ing treatment, which were 18 and 5 FAs, respectively.

The P61 is likely able to synthesize FAs, including

Table 2. Amino acids concentrations (% w/w) in Pseudodiaptomus sp. (P61) and Pseudodiaptomus sp.

(P71) fed with Thallassiosira sp. and milk powder

Description: The AA value represents the means ± standard deviation (n=3). The different superscript letters in the same row indicate significant differences between Thallassiosira sp. and milk powder and between P61 and P71 species (T-test, P<0.05) in each pair of the column

P61 P71 P61 P71

Histidine 0.49 ± 0.00^b 0.54 ± 0.01^a 0.59 ± 0.00^b 1.52 ± 0.01^a 0.84 ± 0.00^a 0.75 ± 0.01^b Threonine 0.94 ± 0.01^a 0.7 ± 0.00^b 0.85 ±0.00^b 1.76 ± 0.00^a 0.99 ± 0.00^b 1.14 ± 0.01^a Arginine 1.96 ± 0.00^a 1.69 ± 0.01^b 4.86 ± 0.00^b 11.26 ± 0.01^a 12.41 ± 0.01^a 7.32 ± 0.09^b Tyrosine 0.32 ± 0.01^b 0.68 ± 0.00^a 0.82 ± 0.01^b 1.64 ± 0.01^a 0.84 ± 0.00^b 1.06 ± 0.01^a

Valine 0.99 ± 0.01^a 0.97 ± 0.00^b 0.96 ± 0.00^b 2.07 ± 0.01^a 1.14 ± 0.00^b 1.33 ± 0.01^a Methionine 0.41 ± 0.00^a 0.30 ± 0.01^b 0.31 ± 0.00^b 0.63 ± 0.01^a 0.36 ± 0.00^a 0.26 ± 0.01^b

Ileucine 0.67 ± 0.01^b 0.84 ± 0.00^a 0.76 ± 0.01^b 1.46 ± 0.00^a 0.83 ± 0.00^b 0.91 ± 0.01^a Leucine 1.38 ± 0.01^b 1.56 ± 0.00^a 1.37 ± 0.01^b 2.66 ± 0.01^a 1.48 ± 0.00^b 1.65 ± 0.00^a Lysine 1.23 ± 0.01^b 1.45 ± 0.01^a 1.59 ± 0.01^b 3.65 ± 0.00^a 2.21 ± 0.00^a 2.20 ± 0.06^ab Phenylalanine 1.02 ± 0.01^a 0.81 ± 0.00^b 0.79 ± 0.00^b 1.46 ± 0.01^a 0.82 ± 0.00^b 0.99 ± 0.02^a

Aspartic acid 1.87 ± 0.00^a 1.01 ± 0.00^b 1.59 ± 0.01^b 3.27 ± 0.01^a 1.88 ± 0.00^b 2.10 ± 0.00^a Serine 0.96 ± 0.01^a 0.86 ± 0.00^b 0.83 ± 0.00^b 1.66 ± 0.00^a 0.97 ± 0.00^b 1.14 ± 0.01^a Glutamate 2.65 ± 0.00^b 3.87 ± 0.01^a 2.85 ± 0.02^b 5.69 ± 0.01^a 3.32 ± 0.00^b 3.58 ± 0.00^a

Glycine 1.01 ± 0.00^a 0.28 ± 0.00^b 1.22 ± 0.00^b 2.97 ± 0.00^a 1.88 ± 0.00^a 1.75 ± 0.00^b Alanine 1.23 ± 0.00^a 0.5 ± 0.00^b 1.31 ± 0.01^b 2.59 ± 0.00^a 1.50 ± 0.01^b 1.77 ± 0.00^a 17.14 ± 0.01^a 16.06 ± 0.01^b 20.69 ± 0.01^b 44.27 ± 0.01^a 31.47 ± 0.01^a 27.96 ± 0.01^b

Thalassiosira sp. Milk powder

Essential

Non- essential

Total

Amino acid Thalassiosira sp. Milk powder

linoleic acid (AL A), arachidonic acid (ARA), and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), which are highly unsat- urated fatty acids (HUFA). The three fatty acids play the important role in immunity, structures of cell membranes, eye migration, pigmentation, ion bal- ance regulating, growth, and survival of marine fish larvae (Barroso et al., 2017; Jardine et al., 2020; Mejri et al., 2021). The DHA was the only HUFA detected in the MP treatment of P61. However, DHA and EPA were detected in the MP treatment of P71. Pseudodiaptomus code P71 which was fed with MP synthesized FAs in a wide diversity than P71 which was fed with Thalassiosira sp. Although in this study EPA and DHA were not detected in MP, these two FAs were de- tected in P61 and P71. This result indicated that both P61 and P71 are likely able to synthesize DHA and/or EPA from linoleic acid. This finding resolves that P61 and P71 are the superior species in DHA and EPA syn- thesis as limited copepods species are able to ex- tend the linolenic acid chain into EPA and DHA (Bell et al., 2007).

The two Pseudodiaptomus species showed differ- ent abilities in synthesizing FAs under both Thalassiosira sp. or MP feeding treatment (Table 3).

Based on the diversity of synthesized FAs, P61 fed with Thalassiosira sp. appeared with higher FAs syn- thesis ability than P71. Under the MP feeding treat- ment, both Pseudodiaptomus species showed asimilar synthesize ability of FAs. However, P71 synthesized two essential fatty acids of DHA and EPA, while P61 synthesized DHA only. Milk powder contained more variations of FAs (27), but EPA and DHA were not detected in this feed, except linoleic acid. Although there were only 16 types of FAs in Thalassiosira sp., this phytoplankton contained more complete essen- tial FAs such as linoleic acid, EPA, and DHA.

The feed types affect the synthesis of FAs. This study revealed that P61 and P71 synthesized less es- sential FAs under MP feeding treatment than under Thalassiosira sp. feeding treatment. This is in line with the research reported by Rasdi et al. (2015) finding that the content of both unsaturated, monosaturated, and polyunsaturated FAs depends on the feeding treat- ment. Regarding FAs metabolism, Matsui et al. (2021) have found that P. inopinus contains higher DHA (16.18

± 5.02%) than in the algal mixture (6.05 ± 0.10%).

However, the EPA concentration in P. inopinus (15.28

± 2.53%) is almost the same as in the feed (17.43 ±

Table 3. Detectable fatty acids in P61 and P71 under Thallassiosira sp. and milk powder feeding treatments

Feeding treatments P61 P71

Cyclohexamine Hexanoic acid

Tetradecanoic acid Methyl tetradecanoate

Pentadecanoic acid Niobe oil

Hexadecatrienoic acid Methyl palmitate

9-Hexadecenoic acid Octadecanoic acid

Hexadecanoic acid 5, 8, 11, 14, 17-Eicosapentaenoic acid Methyl gamma.-linolenoate

Linoleic acid Oleic acid 11-Octadecenoic acid

Methyl stearate Methyl Arachidonate cis-5,8,11,14,17 Eicosapentaenoic

Dehydroabietic acid Methyl 6,9,12,15,18-heneicosapenta

Methyl lignocerate Cholesta-3,5-diene

Cholest-5-ene

Methyl palmitate Methyl palmitate

Methyl oleate Methyl oleate

Methyl myristate Methyl myristate

Methyl stearate Methyl stearate

4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19-Docosahexanoic acid 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19-Docosahexaenoic acid cis-4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19- Docosahexanoic acid cis-5, 8, 11, 14, 17-Eicosapentaenoic

Methyl capronate Methyl capronate

Methyl 3-acetylpropanoate Methyl palmitoleate Milk powder

Thalassiosira sp.

0.61%). Meanwhile, Blanda et al. (2017) reported that P. annandalei in outdoor Taiwanese aquaculture ponds was consistently able to synthesize PUFA which were higher than the PUFA contained in sestons. More- over, Nielsen et al. (2020) stated that P. annandalei and Apocycloproyi are able to produce high concentra- tions of DHA when these zooplanktons are fed with Dunaliella tertiolecta, Rhodomonas salina, and Saccharo- myces cerevisiae, although the feeds contain only low or even undetectable DHA. However, this present study found that the concentration of EPA synthe- sized by the two species of P61 and P71 was propor- tional to the concentration of EPA from the consumed feed. Similarly, P. hassei is known to change its fatty acid composition along with the changes of feed types as copepods are able to accumulate FAs, espe- cially EPA and DHA from the feed consumed (Siqwepu et al., 2017). In general, feed sources containing higher EPA are better suited for copepods feed. This study indicated that both P61 and P71 are able to synthesize DHA and EPA. It seems with Cyclopina kasignete and Attheyellaris pinosa can synthesize EPA and DHA although fed with a feed that is low or even

undetectable in EPA and DHA contents (Rasdi et al., 2015) due to EPA and DHA are synthesizable from ALA (Kabeya et al., 2021).

Besides FAs and AAs, under the Thalassiosira sp.

feeding treatment, the protease activity of P61 was 1.024 units/mL, it was 1.5 times lower than that of P71 which was 1.518 units/mL. Meanwhile, under the MP feeding treatment, the protease activity of P61 was higher eight times (0.823 units/mL) than that of P71 (0.106 units/mL) (Figure 1). These results reveal their varied abilities to digest feed between each species.

Information about the protease activity profile was the other criteria to determine the superior cope- pod species. The P71 tended to have higher protease activity under the Thalassiosira sp. feeding treatment than in P61, but it showed lower protease activity under the MP treatment. While P61 showed high pro- tease activity on both types of feeding treatment. In addition, P61 showed more complete FAs under both feeding treatments. This indicated a wider ability of P61 to consume various types of feed than P71.

Figure 1. The protease activity of P61 and P71 under the Thallassiosira sp. and milk powder feeding treatments (Different letters on the bar indicate significant differences between feeding groups (P<0.05)).

1.024

0.823 1.518

0.106 0.000

0.200 0.400 0.600 0.800 1.000 1.200 1.400 1.600 1.800

Thallassiosira sp. Milk powder

protease activity (units/mL)

P61 P71

In addition, P61 ability to synthesize methyl arachidonate, which was a group of ARA, was advan- tageous and required to consider for determining superior Pseudodiaptomus species for live feed candi- dates. Thus, ARA plays an important role in support- ing the pigmentation process and eye migration, as well as the growth and survival of either tropical and also cold water fish larvae (Mejri et al., 2021). More- over, the content of ARA and DHA in larval tissue is closely related to eicosanoid metabolism, response to stress, and genes related to skeleton development (El Kertaoui et al., 2021), although to achieve those, it was necessary DHA, EPA, and ARA in the correct ratio (Boglino et al., 2014; El Kertaoui et al., 2021).

Even though these three essential FAs are not re- quired at high levels by marine fish larvae, the FAs are essentially present in a live feed to support the metamorphosis and growth of fish lar vae.

Pseudodiaptomus species containing a complete long- chain PUFA is an ideal live feed for the marine fish larvae.

CONCLUSION

It can be concluded that Pseudodiaptomus code 61 (P61) was superior to Pseudodiaptomus code 71 (P71) in terms of essential fatty acid content for larval feeds.

However, both species were feasibly cultivated. This was due to their amino acid content and protease activity that complement each other. Thus, they were simultaneously applicable as feed for fish larvae.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The author would like to express the deepest grati- tude to the Ph.D. scholarship program provided by the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Republic of Indonesia, as well as the dissertation research grant No. 2087/UN1/DITLIT/DIT-LIT/PT/2020 from the Min- istry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia.

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